EFF Is Hiring a Policy and Research Staff Technologist

Policy and Research Staff Technologist

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EFF, the OG online rights people, are hiring a staff technologist to help with policy and research. If you've got the chops to do tech work that informs and amplifies their policy work, this is a dream job. It's a decent place to work -- morale is pretty good there and the atmosphere is positive. The people are focused on the civil libertarian mission. Pay is on the upper end of the scale for this kind of non-profit work. This job is fully remote. You'll need to work Pacific hours and be in CA, DC, GA, MA, MD, NV, NJ, NY, OR, WA.

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EFF, the OG online rights people, are hiring a staff technologist to help with policy and research. If you've got the chops to do tech work that in...

Given access to all its databases, I wonder how many Nostr posts it would take for Palantir's AI to dox you. You're leaking all kinds of little drips. Time of posting, public web trail, details about your life/location that are innocuous on their own, etc. At some point, that Jackson Pollock of drips is uniquely yours. It's a fingerprint, right? #asknostr

Suddenly everybody wants to know how to fend off a drone attack. Lol. These guys have answers, and my favorite its VAMPIRES:

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LLMs are good at making predictions from deep datasets. But there are a lot of problems that LLMs are pretty bad at --- problems that involve wide, shallow datasets. A company I am working with has built a machine to look in the LLM's blind spots. They can take the wide, shallow datasets and generate insights (not predictions) that drive decisions. They can, e.g., identify genes of probable significance to a disease from existing medical literature, patient data, and research. It's all very cool, and they're fending off suitors at big valuations. Here's my question, the one I ask myself every day since I linked up with them: what are the problems that LLMs are failing at because the data is wide instead of deep, diverse instead of homogeneous, constantly changing (and thus resists training)? They've agreed to let me test drive their machine and scope a problem to solve. I get to play with the coolest toys! #asknostr

My #homelab is just a server in my home connected via ethernet to my modem/router. I rent an entry-level VPS from Digital Ocean that just runs Caddy (https://caddyserver.org) for when I want to give my homelab services a public internet presence. I use tinc vpn (https://tinc-vpn.org) to connect the public Caddy server to my homelab server, but you might prefer Wireguard (https://wireguard.com). This is all incredibly simple and it allows me to self-host just about anything as a docker, a VM, or a native service. Caddy is hands-down the easiest web server to run. Wireguard is similarly easy as a VPN. If you're just starting a homelab, start with those pieces.

Israeli ambassador chased off campus by #FreePalestine protesters in Senegal Israel’s ambassador to Senegal, Yuval Waks, was forced to leave a university campus in Dakar on Tuesday after students protested his presence and chanted pro-Palestinian slogans, according to footage circulating on social media. Waks had been invited to speak at a conference on international relations practices at Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD), the country’s largest and most prominent higher education institution. But as he arrived, dozens of students gathered outside the hall, chanting “Free Palestine,” “Free Gaza” and “Israel is a war criminal.” Videos shared online show students waving Palestinian flags and booing the newly appointed envoy, preventing him from delivering his speech. Waks was escorted off by security and left the campus without addressing the audience. Protesters continued to follow him, shouting slogans and waving flags as he departed. Waks, who also serves as Israel’s non-resident ambassador to Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Chad, presented his credentials to Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye on May 8. Israel has kept Gaza crossings closed to food, medical and humanitarian aid since March 2, deepening an already severe humanitarian crisis in the enclave, according to government, human rights and international reports. Rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, the Israeli army has pursued a brutal offensive against Gaza since October 2023, killing over 54,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children. Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war crimes against civilians in the enclave. News article: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/israeli-ambassador-chased-off-campus-by-pro-palestinian-protesters-in-senegal/3581465 Shakycam:

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The Genocide 🇮🇱 State is attempting to "normalise" with Senegal 🇸🇳 When word got out that Genocide 🇮🇱 Ambassador Yuval Waks was...